Channel 4 Brass `Elated` Tony Segreto Will Stay

April 1, 1988|By BILL KELLEY, Television Writer

Tony Segreto, who has been on the air at WTVJ-Ch. 4 since he was a student intern, has signed a new, long-term contract with the Miami/Fort Lauderdale CBS affiliate. He will continue to be the station`s first-string sportscaster.

Segreto reportedly has been courted by both competing affiliates -- WPLG-Ch. 10 (ABC) and WSVN-Ch. 7 (NBC) -- but chose to remain with Channel 4. News director Mike Beardsley said he was ``elated`` over the renewal of Segreto`s contract.

It is common knowledge that Segreto has been approached by network sports officials, but has elected to remain in South Florida. He is a resident of Broward County.

In a 1986 readers poll, Segreto was voted the most popular personality among anchors, sportscasters and weather reporters in Miami/Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.

Beardsley also announced that Bryan Jenkins, a reporter from West Palm Beach NBC affiliate WPTV-Ch. 5, has joined Channel 4 News as a medical reporter in the Broward news bureau.

Beardsley described Jenkins as ``the top TV news reporter in West Palm Beach.``

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NBC`s Miami Vice will end its current season on May 6, with an episode in which Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) shoots his partner, Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), in the chest at point-blank range.